The Nomination Database for the Nobel Prize
in Literature, 1901-1950

Year:	1915
Number:	21-0
Nominee:
Name:	Juhani Aho (Brofeldt)
Gender:	M
Year, birth:	1861
Year, death:	1921
Profession:	Author
Country:	FI (FINLAND)
Nominator:
Name:	Karl Alfred Melin
Gender:	M
Profession:	Author, member of the Swedish Academy (Svenska Akademien)
Affiliation:	Swedish Academy (Svenska Akademien)
City:	Stockholm
Country:	SE (SWEDEN)
Comment:	Very few nominations were received for the Prize of 1915. Therefore, the Nobel Committee decided at a meeting on Feb.1, 1915, to carry over a number of nominated candidates from the previous year, with members of the Nobel Committee acting as nominator (see entries 1915-12 through 1915-22).